I'm not sure if this will play online outside the UK (due to possible licensing restrictions), but hopefully it will. I think some people on this board may enjoy this, so I'm posting it here
If you're interested in the history of social dancing in Britain in the
early 20th Century, you've got to see a program called 'Dancehall Days'
which was shown on the BBC recently, and is available to view online or
download via the web with BBC iPlayer, but ONLY for about 5 days. I've
just seen the programme and it's great - includes early footage of
dancing in the Hammersmith Palais in London, the arrival of 'jitterbugging'
with the American GIs in 1941. And features The Charleston with
comments from Julie Oram.
The programme is 58 minutes long.
The link is here, and you need a PC with Windows, Internet Explorer and
broadband to view it -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008m3mr.shtml?
q=dancehall&scope=iplayersearch&start=1&version_pid=b008m3lp
'Dancehall Days' documentary on social dancing in the UK
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